Word: wolverhampton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eccentricity and sense of fair play. The Sunday Observer, for example, has commented on "the fanaticism, the patience, the nationalism, the extremeness, the realism and the romanticism" that he exhibits by turns. Powell is a 56-year-old M.P. from a district in the sooty Midlands city of Wolverhampton, which he has represented since 1950; he is also a former professor of Greek at Australia's Sydney University, at age 27 was the author of four scholarly books, and speaks eleven languages with varying degrees of proficiency. Powell argues his case with a formidable intellect...